Karl Marx on alienation and the ways of universal emancipation

Abstract

The main forms of alienation that are typical for the capitalist society with theoretical comprehension in Marx’s writings are reviewed in the article. It is made clear that K. Marx offered a communist social project, which is implemented through the socialist revolution and unlimited power of working class during the transition period as an alternative to inhuman and unreasonable capitalistic reality. K. Marx’s analysis of origins and consequences of various forms of alienation becomes relevant in the conditions of reanimation of the institute of private ownership of means of production in the post-Soviet space.